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CloudflareCloudflare

2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

A comprehensive look at Cloudflare's 2025 Q4 DDoS threat landscape, highlighting a record 31.4 Tbps attack, the Night Before Christmas campaign by the Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet, rapid growth of network-layer DDoS, and implications for global infrastructure defense and mitigation strategies.

2/5/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

From Data to Dialogue: A Best Practices Guide for Building High-Performing Genie Spaces

A practical, step-by-step guide to building high-performing Genie Spaces that translate natural language into accurate, governed queries through structured data, metadata, and continuous benchmarking.

2/5/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Navigating health questions with ChatGPT

Practical guidance for using ChatGPT to answer health questions while emphasizing safety, accuracy, and responsible AI design.

2/5/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Data Quality Monitoring at scale with Agentic AI

Scale data quality with Agentic AI: an AI-driven, platform-native monitoring approach that learns normal patterns, detects anomalies, profiles data, and leverages Unity Catalog lineage to resolve issues across datasets for enterprise analytics and AI.

2/4/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 2)

Concise guide to scaling AI/BI dashboard performance in Databricks, covering warehouse sizing, star-schema data modeling, and precomputed metrics with Metric Views to sustain fast queries under concurrent usage.

2/4/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 1)

A holistic, end-to-end guide (Part 1) to optimizing AI/BI dashboards performance across design, warehouse concurrency, caching, and lakehouse data layout to reduce latency and scale with concurrent users.

2/4/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server

A practical walkthrough of unlocking the Codex harness and building the App Server.

2/4/2026
MetaMeta

No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

Screenless XR cross-device passkeys authentication that replaces QR codes with a companion-app-driven, hybrid WebAuthn/CTAP transport for secure passwordless login.

2/4/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Accelerating Drug Discovery: From FASTA Files to GenAI Insights on Databricks

End-to-end, Databricks-based workflow that ingests FASTA protein sequences, classifies membrane proteins with ProtBERT-BFD, enriches records with LLM-driven research context, and delivers actionable, natural-language drug-target insights within a single governed platform.

2/4/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Unlocking the Future of Energy with Smart Meter Innovation

Explores how AMI data, Databricks-powered AI analytics, and edge intelligence turn smart meters into a real-time, strategic platform for grid resilience, improved outage response, and enhanced customer value.

2/4/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs

Examines how artificial intelligence and generative models accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutics and antibiotics through MIT collaborations, organ-on-chip testing, and translational pipelines from concept to preclinical candidates.

2/4/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows

Antonio Torralba headlines MIT’s 2025 ACM Fellows alongside three alumni, underscoring advances in computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception, plus leadership in AI research and education.

2/4/2026